Wednesday night, Bette Midler’s highly anticipated play I’ll Eat You Last: A Chat with Sue Mengers premiered at Broadway’s Booth Theatre. The 90-minute one-woman production celebrates the life of the late high-powered and capricious Hollywood agent Sue Mengers.

When Mengers died in October 2011, Carter’s memoriam noted that she never wrote the story of her fascinating life—“[l]ike the great character that she was, that marvelous, never written book went with her”—but the play does its part to preserve Mengers’s unique voice and story in the entertainment industry’s canon.

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